Sir Watchalot
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- Feb 3, 2023
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Be interesting to know how many we do wear a year. Does seem to be quite a few.at this rate we'll have a different guernsey every single game
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Be interesting to know how many we do wear a year. Does seem to be quite a few.at this rate we'll have a different guernsey every single game
A "coloured swap" version isn't the Prison Bars Eddie.
I'm starting to think our current home kit is a better guernsey. I waver but sometimes it looks sexy as fukc.
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My point is that a "colour swapped" version is not the Prison Bars.You're deliberately ignoring what dirty2 and I have posted to make... some sort of point?
I'm as militant a PBs advocate as there is, it should be our full time home guernsey. And if it was, we'd have a colour swapped version as our clash kit.
Richmond went on a 30 plus year drought do you think it lessened their kit?Our home guernsey is fine but if we switched away from it tomorrow, we wouldn't ever have a "bring back the chevrons" campaign. It's unfortunately found itself used during our worst ever era.
I certainly don't mind it at all from a design perspective and I guess design is subjective. But the PBs just make players look bigger because of the panelling and the combination of vertical and horizontal elements in the starkest of contrasting colours.
My point is that a "colour swapped" version is not the Prison Bars.
Richmond went on a 30 plus year drought do you think it lessened their kit?
Reality is as much success as we had in the SANFL we also went through droughts, thrashings & GF losses in the PB's.
It's a weak argument against a design.
I would 1000x prefer us to wear the PB's shown on the earlier page than the chevrons, on the condition that on ANZAC Day we use the 1919 black and white version.Nobody but you is having this argument and your arguing with 2 of the most pro-bars people on the board.
Richmond had worn their guernsey for 100 years and had very successful eras prior to their drought. The chevrons have only had the Primus and Hinkley eras. Heritage matters for sports uniforms.
Purely from a design point of view, the current home guernsey is pretty good, one of the best in the league. But it's just a footy guernsey. It's not ours. It's just a classic footy design in our excellent colours.
Ignoring the fact that the prison bars are a heritage colossus, there are elements of their design that elevate it.
The wharf and pylons basis of the design representing the Port while still looking like a footy guernsey. Nobody else has anything else like it. The design in any colours is going to evoke Port Adelaide.
The elements, the front including both horizontal and vertical stripes and a large block of white on the back for a number panel, in a high contrast white on black, serve to make the guernsey and therefore player look bigger and more imposing.
Geelong are probably the only club that achieve a similar affect with their bold, high contrasting hoops and long established "wellness" program.
It's subjective though. Without the heritage consideration there isn't much between the designs.
enjoy the next 20 years of chevrons.
It looks shiteI would 1000x prefer us to wear the PB's shown on the earlier page than the chevrons, on the condition that on ANZAC Day we use the 1919 black and white version.
And to those of you arguing "its not the prison bars" well, enjoy the next 20 years of chevrons.
Valid idea, just quietly I really love the blacked out prison bars in the fashion worn from 1912-16 and 1919-20. Arguably more than the standard PBs we wear at SANFL level and in the AFL right now. Wearing the 70s-90s PBs in ANZAC round would be nice but an era accurate one that also simultaneously represents the 1914 Invincibles? Sign me up!! Looked good when worn in 2003 Heritage Round and in the SANFL in 1914 (I assume this was the same version the AFL knocked us back from wearing that year initially).I would 1000x prefer us to wear the PB's shown on the earlier page than the chevrons, on the condition that on ANZAC Day we use the 1919 black and white version.
And to those of you arguing "its not the prison bars" well, enjoy the next 20 years of chevrons.
By all means that should undoubtedly be what’s worn in Showdowns for a multitude of reasons, but when we’re honouring the ANZACs in that round, an era specific jumper is more suitable imoNah I want the Standard Chartered bars of my youth that Scotty wore.
I love that jumper.
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I would 1000x prefer us to wear the PB's shown on the earlier page than the chevrons, on the condition that on ANZAC Day we use the 1919 black and white version.
And to those of you arguing "its not the prison bars" well, enjoy the next 20 years of chevrons.
Not saying to compromise.. we should be allowed our black and white PB's but every team should have a clash/away Guernsey.If you give the afl an initial compromised pb jumper design, they will knock it, tell us it's not enough of a contrasting design, and keep knocking version after version until we show them a black and teal jumper. A compromise now will be like losing the war.
Yeah thats a fair call.By all means that should undoubtedly be what’s worn in Showdowns for a multitude of reasons, but when we’re honouring the ANZACs in that round, an era specific jumper is more suitable imo
I think we need just one pb jumper. If we start wanting variations then it will keep getting knocked back even more.By all means that should undoubtedly be what’s worn in Showdowns for a multitude of reasons, but when we’re honouring the ANZACs in that round, an era specific jumper is more suitable imo
There are numerous Prison Bar guernseys, 1914, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s etc, but all of them are black and white.I think we need just one pb jumper. If we start wanting variations then it will keep getting knocked back even more.